you don't get it, do you? let me spell it out. whenever i've met or heard of people who were that okay with being killers? they were okay with other things like taking hostages blatantly using people blackmail
My intentions are as follows: the two of you clearly have history, and I'm interested in hearing what it is. No more, no less.
Choose to disbelieve it, if you'd like, but that's really all it is.
[This is what happens when she tries to be straightforward!! It looks like she's scheming!! She can't help it if she's just... naturally given to seeming like a schemer...
...Also, Jinx is telling her plenty in the other simultaneous text conversation she's got going on at the moment, but getting both sides would be a lovely bit of additional context.]
Would it salve your paranoia if I offered to answer a question of your choice?
When two or more people arrive from the same world, typically they know each other. That much is just pattern recognition. And I like knowing everything about everyone! Which is not a realistic goal, but I do what I can.
Also, Jinx did publicly claim you on the Network once, which was very entertaining and also raised quite a lot of questions.
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Date: 2025-09-10 10:38 pm (UTC)i mean
i don't know
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Date: 2025-09-11 02:49 am (UTC)Then let's start with something a little simpler.
She called herself your murderer, once. Is that true?
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Date: 2025-09-12 09:53 pm (UTC)yeah.
to be fair to her, we were both going in to the fight with the intent to end things
why are you asking?
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Date: 2025-09-12 10:50 pm (UTC)[Did Ash actually say 'I almost murdered my girlfriend before we started dating' in that original conversation? Yes, but it's different, okay.]
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Date: 2025-09-12 11:32 pm (UTC)we were childhood friends.
but stuff happened. and people change
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Date: 2025-09-13 03:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-14 02:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-14 03:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-22 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-22 01:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-22 04:17 pm (UTC)let me spell it out.
whenever i've met or heard of people who were that okay with being killers?
they were okay with other things
like taking hostages
blatantly using people
blackmail
just to name a few.
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Date: 2025-09-22 06:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-22 09:29 pm (UTC)you're still asking me that after that?
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Date: 2025-09-23 12:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-23 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-23 05:32 am (UTC)Choose to disbelieve it, if you'd like, but that's really all it is.
[This is what happens when she tries to be straightforward!! It looks like she's scheming!! She can't help it if she's just... naturally given to seeming like a schemer...
...Also, Jinx is telling her plenty in the other simultaneous text conversation she's got going on at the moment, but getting both sides would be a lovely bit of additional context.]
Would it salve your paranoia if I offered to answer a question of your choice?
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Date: 2025-09-23 06:08 am (UTC)For now, he'll reward supposed honesty with honesty.]
we were real young when our worlds flipped upside down. not much older than tots.
i lived with my dad, she with hers, her sister and two boys.
we clicked because we were the most similar in age and interests. the techies.
honestly, for the undercity, it was about as good as life could get. stability. loving, protective parents.
still, there was a hunger for something more. something better than our toxic, sunlight-deprived city.
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Date: 2025-09-24 05:04 am (UTC)What'd you make of it?
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Date: 2025-09-24 05:14 am (UTC)for her, she and her gang stole from them. i was the messenger.
[something he chooses not to elaborate on for the moment.]
but it seemed like fate lined up in all the worst ways for us.
over the span of a few days, my dad was killed. jinx's too, along with the boys.
we thought her sister died, too. she got shipped off to piltie high-security prison, so she might as well have been for most of those years.
honestly, i thought jinx died. come to find out, the man responsible for killing my dad? took her in.
so yeah.
we've been through some shit.
it took unbelievable effort to not start this tag with 'that's rough, buddy'
Date: 2025-10-13 08:45 pm (UTC)And I did say I'd answer a question in exchange.
So.
What would you like to know?
you should've tbh
Date: 2025-10-17 11:08 pm (UTC)just why you wanted to know.
really dig deep for it.
[Is he serious, or just pulling her leg? It's difficult to tell with text.]
ashton's 0.025 brain cells of tact briefly activating to prevent it
Date: 2025-10-18 12:37 am (UTC)When two or more people arrive from the same world, typically they know each other. That much is just pattern recognition. And I like knowing everything about everyone! Which is not a realistic goal, but I do what I can.
Also, Jinx did publicly claim you on the Network once, which was very entertaining and also raised quite a lot of questions.
such a display of strength and self-control, i weep
Date: 2025-10-22 07:44 am (UTC)that post is going to haunt me until the day i'm off this ship.
and probably after then, too.
but alright. if you really mean no harm, i'll take your word for it.
it does help that you and jinx seem pretty chummy with each other already.
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Date: 2025-10-22 02:56 pm (UTC)[Those are certainly words that someone could put in that order!]
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Date: 2025-11-05 06:56 am (UTC)sure.
[what the fuck else could he say to that. takes one to know one??? (affectionate)]
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